Environmental and chemical measurements, and coral calcification rates in Bermuda from 2010 to 2012, supplement to: Courtney, Travis A; Lebrato, Mario; Bates, Nicolas R; Collins, Andrew; de Putron, Samantha J; Garley, Rebecca; Johnson, Rod; Molinero, J C; Noyes, Timothy J; Sabine, Christopher L; Andersson, Andreas J (2017): Environmental controls on modern scleractinian coral and reef-scale calcification. Science Advances, 3(11), e1701356

• Main Authors: Courtney, Travis A, Lebrato, Mario, Bates, Nicolas R, Collins, Andrew, de Putron, Samantha J, Garley, Rebecca, Johnson, Rod, Molinero, J C, Noyes, Timothy J, Sabine, Christopher L, Andersson, Andreas J, Yang, Yan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2017
• Subjects: Animalia; Benthic animals; Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Cnidaria; Coast and continental shelf; Diploria labyrinthiformis; Entire community; Field observation; North Atlantic; Porites astreoides; Rocky-shore community; Single species; Temperate; Event label; Type; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Years; Month; Date; Chlorophyll a; Temperature, water; Brightness; Salinity; Aragonite saturation state; pH; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Alkalinity, total; Carbon dioxide; Score on PC1; Calcification rate; Carbonate system computation flag; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Calcite saturation state; Experiment; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre OA-ICC; Bates; Andreas; Molinero; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.892130; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.892130

Modern reef-building corals sustain a wide range of ecosystem services because of their ability to build calcium carbonate reef systems. The influence of environmental variables on coral calcification rates has been extensively studied, but our understanding of their relative importance is limited by the absence of in situ observations and the ability to decouple the interactions between different properties. We show that temperature is the primary driver of coral colony (Porites astreoides and Diploria labyrinthiformis) and reef-scale calcification rates over a 2-year monitoring period from the Bermuda coral reef. On the basis of multimodel climate simulations (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) and assuming sufficient coral nutrition, our results suggest that P. astreoides and D. labyrinthiformis coral calcification rates in Bermuda could increase throughout the 21st century as a result of gradual warming predicted under a minimum CO2 emissions pathway [representative concentration pathway (RCP) 2.6] with positive 21st-century calcification rates potentially maintained under a reduced CO2 emissions pathway (RCP 4.5). These results highlight the potential benefits of rapid reductions in global anthropogenic CO2 emissions for 21st-century Bermuda coral reefs and the ecosystem services they provide. : In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2016) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2018-07-02.